Charles Villiers Stanford's revision of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, performed solo a cappella by Michael J. O'Donnell.


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Artist/Composer: Michael J. O'Donnell
Date: 2011
Keywords: Irish; a cappella; Moore; Stanford

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The Irish Melodies

Thomas Moore wrote a series of poems called "Irish Melodies" and
published them from 1807 through 1834. He wrote in the English
language but in the Irish spirit. He set the poems to ancient Irish
tunes as he remembered them, and collaborated with John Stevenson and
Henry R. Bishop on arrangements with piano accompaniment in a 19th
century style.

Charles Villiers Stanford revised Moore's transcriptions, trying to
capture the traditional tunes more faithfully. In 1894, he published
The Irish Melodies with 118 of Moore's poems reset to more
authentic tunes, but with equally inauthentic 19th-century
accompaniments.

I decided to sing all of Stanford's settings of Moore's Irish
Melodies. I'm singing them solo a cappella because I don't have a
collaborator on the harp or other appropriate instrument.

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